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Wisconsin Toolmaker Moves Again
Manufacturing News Center
Brookfield, WI--March 16, 2004-- Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.
will cease manufacturing operations at its Brookfield plant by year-end
as part of a plan to shift saw blade production to a factory in Mississippi.
The manufacturer of branded professional electric tools in its signature
red color is relocating the three remaining production lines at its
local plant, 13135 W. Lisbon Road, to a factory in Greenwood, Miss.
The latest move will result in the loss of about 50 nonunion manufacturing
jobs in Brookfield.
In January of 2004, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation celebrated its
80th consecutive year of manufacturing heavy duty power tools for professional
tradesmen and women. METC is best known product is the Sawzall reciprocating
saw. Since its founding in 1924, Milwaukee has focused on a single vision:
to produce the best heavy-duty electric power tools and accessories
available to professional users. Today, the Milwaukee name stands for
the highest quality, durable and reliable professional tools money can
buy.
The company began transferring work to Greenwood, a community
with a population of about 18,500 in the delta of western Mississippi,
in early 2002. At the time METC initially announced the layoffs.there
were 450 employees, excluding hourly production workers, at its headquarters
in Brookfield. About 130 manufacturing jobs were moved from Brookfield
to Mississippi.
The Greenwood factory, which Milwaukee Electric Tool purchased in 2001
and expanded last year, is already is producing a line of saw blades.
Two similar lines of blades and one line of hole saws, all of which currently
are produced at the Brookfield plant, will be moved to the Greenwood factory
this year.
The plant located in Greenwood currently has about 300 employees. The
number is expected to jump to 350 once the remaining lines are transferred
from the Brookfield plant, a company spokesman reported.
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Source: Excerpts from The
Business Journal of Milwaukee and Milwaukee
Electric Tool Corporation
For more information on METC, contact Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation,
13135 West Lisbon Road, Brookfield, WI 53005; toll free 1-800-SAWDUST
(729-3878).
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, a company within the Atlas Copco
Group, is a leading producer and seller of heavy-duty portable electric
tools and accessories. More information is available on the company’s
website: www.milwaukeetool.com
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